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Gold & Silver at World Championships

Victoria continued her total dominance of the women’s sprint event winning her fifth World Championship title in the last 6 years. Read more here and watch her gold medal ride In today’s (Sunday 28/03/10) Keirin event Victoria won the silver medal but only after the officials failed to punish the Lithuanian winner despite GB Perfromance Director Dave [...]
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Victoria Packs a Punch for Sport Relief

Victoria steps into the ring in Manchester to discover how Sport Relief is supporting a Moss Side boxing club keep kids out of trouble. Sport Relief project visit
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2010 World Championships

Victoria’s interview with the BBC ahead of this week’s World Championships. She has played down her chances of winning three gold medals but says she is in good shape to return home with at least one title. BBC interview
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Victoria is the new Hovis ambassador

Yesterday (Thursday 7th January 2010) it was announced that I’ll be a brand ambassador for Hovis for the next 3 years to the end of 2012. I’m really pleased to be working with Hovis and it’s a real honour to be representing such a well known British brand. There will be lots more information here on my website [...]
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Statement on changes to track cycling schedule for London 2012

10th December 2009 For immediate release Today’s announcement by the IOC that they have approved the UCI’s proposals to make an equal number of track cycling events available for men and women at the London Olympics is a very positive step for female track cycling everywhere in the World. The fact this progress has been made [...]
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Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year 2009

Once again Victoria was in the top three of this prestigious award that was announced at a ceremony in London on 3rd November. Having won the award in 2007, she was runner up last year and her third place this year confirms she is one of the most consistently successful athletes for this award. Read [...]
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Gold & silver at World Cup

Vicky won the individual sprint event at the World Cup in Manchester to continue her impressive start to the season. The field for the womens sprint was incredibly strong as all of the major names had travelled to Manchester making it an even more satisfying victory for Vicky, espcially so early in the season. Her silver medal [...]
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World Cup

Vicky is competing in the first UCI World Cup event of the new season at the Manchester Velodrome this week. For details of the race schedule and tv broadcast timings please click here.
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National Championships – third title

Vicky claimed her fifth consecutive national keirin title on Saturday and her third gold medal of the championships and is in great form going into this week’s World Cup event. “My form’s been really good this week, better than I expected going into the Championships, so I’m really looking forward to the World Cup now. I [...]
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National Championships – 8th straight national sprint title

Victoria’s impressive start to the season continued last night at the British National Championships. She won her 8th consecutive national sprint title to confirm her total dominance of womens sprint events. Guardian report
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